Mervat Nasser, MD, MPhil, FRCPsych, is a graduate of Cairo Medical School and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy and a doctorate in psychiatry from London University. She took an early retirement from her job as a consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at Kings College London in 2007 and returned to Egypt to pursue her dream of establishing the project of New Hermopolis. She is author of The Path to the New Hermopolis: The History, Philosophy, and Future of the City of Hermes. Her website is https://www.newhermopolis.org/

Here she points to the Egyptian Blue Lotus as a metaphor embodying the philosophy of hope. It is a beautiful flower that grows out of stagnant and muddy water. She notes that some of the most hopeful philosophers, psychotherapists, and poets emerged from the first half of the twentieth century which was one of the darkest periods in human history. She expresses her appreciation for the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Victor Frankl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gene Gebser, Rudolf Steiner, and others. She explains how their work relates to ancient Hermetic philosophy and how it impacts her work with the community of New Hermopolis.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on January 4, 2021)

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Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope – https://amzn.to/38Ix226

Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia – https://amzn.to/2LPA6k6

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea – https://amzn.to/3bN4iqS

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Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy – https://amzn.to/3oMHrzv

Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning – https://amzn.to/2XFoOl9

Gary Lachman, Rudolf Steiner – https://amzn.to/3ieci5y

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants – https://amzn.to/3nIYbGF

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval – https://amzn.to/2XDpuaz

Walter Benjamin, Reflections – https://amzn.to/3slJFZ3

Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin – https://amzn.to/3oKaq7h

Jeremy Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom of the Pyramid Texts – https://amzn.to/35Gjlz8

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark – https://amzn.to/3oMj2Kj

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